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Glossary: HTML & CSS Basics

meta

Also written: meta element, meta tag, charset, UTF-8, description

An element in the `head` that gives one piece of information about the page, such as its character encoding (`charset="utf-8"`, which covers every language and emoji), its viewport behavior on phones, or a description for search engines.

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